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Vote 2019: Election Schedule Redux
https://pacificainexile.org/archives/2683
NOTE: Electioneering postcards will be sent out to help simplify choices a bit.
Also - I am on vacation. "Buzz" will sit in the host and engineer's seat and co-producing with me so the show will be maintained with some changes and additions he wants to include.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
8am: "Eastern Orthodox Spirituality"
From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, www.pacificaradioarchives.org Program #BB0528.04
MONDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 14
12-1 Report to the Listener
New Executive Director (Maxie) / New Program Director (Kevin) / New General Manager (Anyel)
(All with considerable to extensive radio experience!!)
1-2 Pema Chodron, "Noble Heart" Session 5 of 12
'A Self-Guided Retreat in Befriending Your Obstacles'
You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chödrön. For at the core of your most painful experiences, perhaps more than anywhere else, you will find the seeds of your awakening.
On 'Noble Heart,' this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties. The noble heart, Ane Pema teaches, is one that sheds its armor, opening itself fearlessly to both heartache and delight. Using special meditations and traditional teachings, Pema Chödrön leads you, step-by-step, toward a full realization of your true strength, the strength that can come only through embracing the pain of your own experience.
'Noble Heart' was recorded as it happened, within the peaceful shrine room of Gampo Abbey, Ane Pema's home on the cliffs of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Structured so that you can create your own retreat at home or at your meditation center, this complete curriculum brings you key teachings about how to recognize and cultivate the soft spot that is the gateway to your own noble heart.
Here is the promise of the Four Limitless Ones-maitri (loving-kindness), compassion, joy, and equanimity-and down-to-earth advice about how to draw strength from them every day, in any situation. Here, too, are the treasured teachings about the Six Paramitas: the Buddha's own map of the journey to enlightenment. Learn how to connect with your innately unlimited friendliness, and how it can grow big enough to contain the entire world.
With four complete meditations, unique heart teachings, and Ane Pema's trademark humor, 'Noble Heart' invites you to discover for yourself the compassion and wisdom that have established her as a leading voice in American Buddhism. Includes more than nine hours of direct teachings from this revered acharya (master teacher)
Session 5: 'The Aspiration Practice of Compassion'
Ego's weak link. Your soft spot. Addiction and obsession. Dualistic Thinking, Karma meditation instruction, Far and near enemies. Pity and overwhelm. Forgiveness. More.
From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/noble-heart-4209.html
2-3:30 Robert Thurman, "Making the World We Want" Part 4 of 4 (concluding)
'A Passionate Examination of Buddhism's Potential to Revolutionize the Course of Humanity'
Columbia University professor Robert Thurman stands alone among scholars of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and he is the renowned translator of many seminal Buddhist texts, including 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead.'
On 'Making the World We Want,' you will hear a very different Thurman as he speaks candidly on what he considers the most urgent issue of our time: how Buddhism is now poised to revolutionize the entire course of humanity.
In this passionate, incisive, and often hilarious joyride of the mind and spirit, Thurman explores: mindful communities as "enlightenment factories" and how they have sparked "inner" revolutions throughout history; the Buddha's philosophy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of real happiness; how compassion and nonduality spur social action; the vision of sacred texts for the future of humanity; and much more.
"The Buddha founded a quiet revolution," asserts Thurman, "a total reorientation of the habits of individuals and entire societies." On 'Making the World We Want,' you will learn how each of us can participate in this monumental revolution today.
From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/making-the-world-we-want-2181.html
3:40- 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 15
12-1 CCS President Frank Cousineau and Vice President Charles Wintner co-host the Annual Cancer Control Society Convention, introducing 40 speakers over a three day period and moderating a Doctors' Symposium on day four.
Throughout the year, the Cancer Control Society distributes literature, books and videos on everything in Alternative Medicine from amygdalin to zinc. Lorraine Rosenthal, the organization's Co-Founder, answers many calls each day, giving direction and hope to those in need. She also attends many other conventions and public events throughout the year, distributing information on CCS and the latest findings in Alternative Therapies.
CCS also publishes its Green Sheet, a directory of doctors practicing Alternative Medicine, and its Patient Sheet, a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of patients who say they were controlled by Alternative Therapies. You are invited to call any of them.
The Cancer Control Society is a non-profit organization, dependent upon donations for its mission: to prevent and control Cancer and Other Diseases through Nutrition and Non-Toxic Therapies. For more information, please call The Cancer Control Society, (323) 663-7801.
The Cancer Control Society
2043 N. Berendo
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 663-7801
www.cancercontrolsociety.com
12-12:30 Marlene Veltre, Author
"Seven Basics for Simple Health"
MARLENE VELTRE, AUTHOR, Breast cancer survivor Marlene Veltre is the Author of the books, 7 Basics for Simple Health and Feel Good, Do The Method. She is a health educator and facilitator of her stress management technique, The Method. At the height of her professional career spanning 30 years, Marlene was an executive vice president at a global Fortune 500 company in New York City. Today, she lives in Venice, CA. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. Marlene's books are available on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com For more information, you can visit this website: 7BasicsForSimpleHealth.com
12:30-1 Norman Shealey M.D., Ph.D.
"The Holistic Control of Cancer"
C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D., Ph.D. is Founder and President of International Institute of Holistic Medicine, President of Shealy Wellness, LLC and Holos Energy Medicine Education. He is editor of Journal of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine. He was founding President of the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978. He has 14 patents in Energy Medicine, has published 35 books and over 350 articles. Dr. Shealy's innovations include Spinal Cord Stimulation, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), the RejuvaMatrix® for rejuvenating telomeres, and Transcutaneous Acupuncture, which also rejuvenates telomeres. His clinical work includes comprehensive holistic management of pain, depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular problems.
He received his Medical Degree from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in1956. He later became a Neurosurgeon, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston in 1963. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, California in 1977.
Dr. Shealy introduced the concepts of Dorsal Column Stimulation and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, both now used worldwide. In 1971, he founded the first comprehensive, Holistic Clinic for management of pain and stress management called The Shealy Institute, which became the most successful Pain Clinic in the U.S., with 85% success in over 30,000 patients. The Shealy Protocols for management of depression, migraine, fibromyalgia and back pain are increasingly being integrated into hospitals and individual practices.
In 1978, Dr. Shealy was instrumental in creating The American Holistic Medical Association located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which continues to emphasize the spiritual component of healing. He was the Founding President for its first 2 years.
Dr. Shealy holds 9 patents for innovative discoveries and has published over 300 articles including 22 books, the latest of which is Life Beyond 100-Secrets of The Fountain of Youth. This book presents a detailed road map to achieve healthy aging from the physiology of stress and its effect on the human mind and body to the importance of DHEA; from the proven techniques of photostimulation and biofeedback training to groundbreaking suggestions for alleviating depression and from Shealy's electromagnetic framework of life to his recommendations for optimal health.
Currently, Dr. Shealy is President of Holos University Graduate Seminary, located in Fairgrove, Missouri, which offers Doctoral Programs in Spiritual Healing and Energy Medicine. His current research emphasizes the potential for using spiritual energetics in reversing DNA damage, to enhance health and longevity.
Dr. Shealy can be reached at Shealy Wellness, 5607 S. 222nd Road, Fair Grove MO 65648, phone 417-467-2124, toll free 855-329-2124, fax 417-267-3102.
1-2:30 Jeff Foster, "The Way of Rest"
Jeff Foster is a spiritual teacher whose methods do not belong to any one lineage or style. He teaches a form of total acceptance-a dismantling of the armor of the heart so that we can live vibrantly in the here and now. With Sounds True, Jeff has published several books and audio programs, including The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Jeff and Tami Simon speak on the obstacles that stand between us and rest, and how learning to abide in discomfort is a difficult but necessary step to achieving true rest. Reading an excerpt from his newest book, Jeff explains why it's actually a daring act to choose to rest. Finally, Jeff and Tami talk about depression and the desire to die, and why that desire can be a gateway to a deeper, richer understanding of the self.
A Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' program. For free download of audio and/or transcript, go to
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=12343
2:30-3:30 Karen Brody, "Daring to Rest"
Karen Brody is the founder of the Daring to Rest™ Program for Women, which promotes women's empowerment and increased health through yoga nidra meditation. With Sounds True, Karen has published Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Karen and Tami Simon have a serious discussion about the epidemic of burnout and exhaustion in modern culture. This is especially true for women, who are often held to the societal expectation that they serve the needs of those around them before they ever consider taking even the most necessary rest. Karen offers yoga nidra as a one part of the solution to this wave of fatigue, describing how her own practice and the cultivation of turiya-"the sleep of the yogis"-helped her move past a period of intense, chronic sleeplessness. Finally, Karen and Tami speak on the liberation in abandoning perfectionism and how yoga nidra can be folded into the course of our daily lives.
A Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' program. For free download of audio and/or transcript, go to:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=12841
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 16
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1039 - Miscellaneous Articles and Updates'
In FTR #718, we warned [back in 2010] that Facebook was not the cuddly little entity it was perceived to be but a potential engine of fascism enabling. Momentum for the remarkably timed immigrant caravan that became a focal point for Trump/GOP/Fox News propaganda during the recently-concluded midterm elections was generated by a fake Facebook account, which mimicked a Honduran politician/human rights activist, Bartolo Fuentes. Significant aspects of the event:
1.-" . . . . Facebook has admitted the account was an imposter account impersonating a prominent Honduran politician. But it is refusing to release information about the account, who may have set it up or what country it originated from. . . ."
2.-" . . . . In response to a query from BuzzFeed News, a Facebook spokesperson said the phony account 'was removed for violating [the company's] misrepresentation policy,' but declined to share any further information, such as what country it originated from, what email address was used to open it, or any other details that might reveal who was behind it. Facebook added that, barring a subpoena or request from law enforcement, it does not share such information out of respect for the privacy of its users. Fuentes said he believes it's important to find out who was behind the rogue account - but hasn't gotten any answers from Facebook. 'Who knows how many messages could have been sent and who received them?' . . . ."
3.-" . . . . Fuentes has been unable to get any information from Facebook about the account, but one small detail stood out. Whoever created it listed the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa as Fuentes's hometown, rather than the San Pedro Sula suburb of El Progreso. That might seem like a minor error, but it's the sort of mistake a foreigner - not a Honduran - would make about the well-known former lawmaker, whose left-wing party stands in opposition to the current president's administration. . . . "
4.-" . . . . It operated entirely in Spanish and precisely targeted influencers within the migrant rights community. And rather than criticize or undermine the caravan - as other online campaigns would later attempt to do - it was used to legitimize the event, making a loosely structured grassroots event appear to be a well-organized effort by an established migrant group with a proven track record of successfully bringing Central American people to the US border. . . ."
5.-" . . . . before the account got started not many people seemed to be joining. Only after the account kicked into gear did enthusiasm and participation spike. The account also claimed falsely that the caravan was being led by a migrant rights organization called Pueblo Sin Fronteras. Later, once the caravan swelled to a massive scale, the Pueblo Sin Fronteras did get involved, though in a support rather than leadership role. . . ."
6.-" . . . . It appears that this account helped the caravan gain key momentum to the point where its size became a self-fulfilling prophecy, spurring even more to join and groups which hadn't been supportive to get involved. . . ."
7.-" . . . . It's hard to believe one Facebook account could play that decisive a role. But the account seems to have been sophisticated. And it is equally difficult to believe that a sophisticator operator or organization would have gone to such trouble and limited their efforts to a single imposter account. . . ."
Christopher Wylie-the former head of research at Cambridge Analytica who became one of the key insider whistle-blowers about how Cambridge Analytica operated and the extent of Facebook's knowledge about it-gave an interview last month to Campaign Magazine. (We dealt with Cambridge Analytica in FTR #'s 946, 1021.)
Wylie recounts how, as director of research at Cambridge Analytica, his original role was to determine how the company could use the information warfare techniques used by SCL Group - Cambridge Analytica's parent company and a defense contractor providing psy op services for the British military. Wylie's job was to adapt the psychological warfare strategies that SCL had been using on the battlefield to the online space. As Wylie put it:
" . . . . When you are working in information operations projects, where your target is a combatant, the autonomy or agency of your targets is not your primary consideration. It is fair game to deny and manipulate information, coerce and exploit any mental vulnerabilities a person has, and to bring out the very worst characteristics in that person because they are an enemy...But if you port that over to a democratic system, if you run campaigns designed to undermine people's ability to make free choices and to understand what is real and not real, you are undermining democracy and treating voters in the same way as you are treating terrorists. . . . ."
Wylie also draws parallels between the psychological operations used on democratic audiences and the battlefield techniques used to be build an insurgency. It starts with targeting people more prone to having erratic traits, paranoia or conspiratorial thinking, and get them to "like" a group on social media. The information you're feeding this target audience may or may not be real. The important thing is that it's content that they already agree with so that "it feels good to see that information." Keep in mind that one of the goals of the 'psychographic profiling' that Cambridge Analytica was to identify traits like neuroticism.
Wylie goes on to describe the next step in this insurgency-building technique: keep building up the interest in the social media group that you're directing this target audience towards until it hits around 1,000-2,000 people. Then set up a real life event dedicated to the chosen disinformation topic in some local area and try to get as many of your target audience to show up. Even if only 5 percent of them show up, that's still 50-100 people converging on some local coffee shop or whatever. The people meet each other in real life and start talking about about "all these things that you've been seeing online in the depths of your den and getting angry about". This target audience starts believing that no one else is talking about this stuff because "they don't want you to know what the truth is". As Wylie puts it, "What started out as a fantasy online gets ported into the temporal world and becomes real to you because you see all these people around you."
In FTR #1028, we highlighted the killing of Mollie Tibbetts noting that:
1.-The killing may have been a provocation, directed at focusing the electorate's ire toward illegal immigrants and away from Donald Trump.
2.-The announcement about the location and arrest of the suspected perpetrator-Christhian Rivera-came on the same day that Michael Cohen copped a plea and Paul Manafort was found guilty. Was Rivera's arrest timed as a distraction?
3.-There are superficial indications that Christhian Rivera may have been subjected to mind control, a la Sirhan Sirhan.
4.-Rivera worked at a dairy facility controlled by the Lang family, prominent Iowa Republicans.
Now, we learn that Eric Lang, Craig Lang's brother-is married to Nicole Schlinger, a prominent GOP fundraiser with strong operational and historical links to the Koch brothers' networks and other GOP post-Citizens United dark money networks.
High-tech may be the future of Trump's much-ballyhooed wall with Mexico, with a technology dubbed AVATAR seen by some as the future of border security: "A virtual border agent kiosk was developed to interview travelers at airports and border crossings and it can detect deception to flag human security agents. The U.S., Canada and European Union have tested the technology, and one researcher says it has a deception detection success rate of up to 80 percent - better than human agents. The technology relies on sensors and biometrics, and its lie-detection capabilities are based on eye movements or changes in voice, posture and facial gestures. . . ."
Futurist philosopher and author Yuval Noah Harari appears to be a dystopian futurist, envisioning a future where democracy is seen as obsolete and a techno-elite ruling class run companies with the capacity to essentially control the minds of masses. Those masses that will increasingly be seen obsolete and useless. Harari even gave a recent TED Talk called "Why fascism is so tempting - and how your data could power it. So how do Silicon Valley's CEO view Mr. Harari's views? They apparently can't get enough of him:
We conclude with a look at how the SCL/Cambridge Analytica dynamic has manifested in the Russia-gate Psy-Op.
Adding further perspective to the utterly fantastic nature of the Russia-Gate "psy-op" is analysis of a recent New York Times propaganda piece hyping Russia's manipulation of Facebook to influence the U.S. election. ". . . . The further research into an earlier Consortium News article shows that a relatively paltry 80,000 posts from the private Russian company Internet Research Agency (IRA) were engulfed in literally trillions of posts on Facebook over a two-year period before and after the 2016 vote. [Just HOW a post generated after the election was supposed to influence the election was not explained by The Gray Lady-D.E.]. . . . The newspaper [The New York Times] failed to tell their readers that Facebook account holders in the United States had been "served" 33 trillion Facebook posts during that same period - 413 million times more than the 80,000 posts from the Russian company. . . ."
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1039-miscellaneous-articles-and-updates/
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Dave Emory's entire lifetime of work is available on a flash drive. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by early 2016. Link: http://www.kfjc.org/donate/index.php
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1-2 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1040 - Interview #9 with Jim DiEugenio about 'Destiny Betrayed"
The ninth of a planned long series of interviews with Jim DiEugenio about his triumphal analysis of President Kennedy's assassination and New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's heroic investigation of the killing.
In this interview, we proceed into the substance of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the JFK assassination. Garrison's inquiry began immediately after the assassination when former Guy Banister investigator Jack Martin gave information to him about one of his cronies in the "detective agency."
David Ferrie was a veteran intelligence officer with a long CV. Ferrie's intelligence resume and behavior with regard the JFK assassination...
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1040-interview-9-with-jim-dieugenio-about-destiny-betrayed/
You can subscribe to the comments made on programs and posts-an excellent source of information in, and of, itself -- http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpitfireListComments
Dave Emory's entire lifetime of work is available on a flash drive. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by early 2016. Link: http://www.kfjc.org/donate/index.php
Dave's website: http://www.spitfirelist.com
2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
For videos go to www.youtube.com and put 'chris hedges on contact' in their search engine.
2:30-3:30 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711
THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 17
12-1 Alan Watts, "The Future of Religion" #3 of 4
"What will become of religion, organized and personal, during the next 100 years? A projection, based upon present trends, of changes in religious ideas and practices that will come about through the influence of science and the cross-fertilization of cultures" (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
3-3:30 Science Fiction Break
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711
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